Pornography
Sexual morality has declined in America today. The immoral life can be
seen all around us. We see it in drugs, alcohol, movies, magazines, gangs,
teenage pregnancy, pre-marital sex, and society as a whole. A person can walk
into almost any convenience store and purchase a magazine depicting naked women.
Videos and movies with graphic sex scenes can be rented or watched in any
movie theater. They have become more common than ever before. Almost every
movie with an "R" rating will have at least one sex scene. Even Forrest Gump, a
highly acclaimed movie, had a sexual act and nudity involved. Also public
television has been known to show nudity and sex. Allusions are made to sex
in ...
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violence, that any reasonable, decent, well-adjusted human being would
recognize as horrible and disgusting. Much pornography is socially acceptable,
with few people actively speaking out against it.
Pornography can be bought at many "adult" or "adult novelty" shops. One
only has to listen to any popular local radio station after 8 P.M. to hear
strings of advertisements for local pornographic outlets. Television
advertisements are shown also, but not as often as on the radio. Pornography is
so socially acceptable in today's society, that it is protected by the same
amendment to the constitution that allows Pro-Life groups to protest abortion,
the first amendment to the constitution. For years, the first amendment has
been quoted to support pornography, as well as everything from freedom to
protest abortion, to freedom of holding Nazi views. The first amendment was
drafted, not to protect boring, popular, or inoffensive views, however, but to
protect the right of people ...
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act, a immoral human act.
The responsibility of the church over the matter of pornography is to be
a clear, constant teacher of the faith, especially objective moral truth. We
live in a time of permissiveness of moral violation and confusion. It is a
time that demands that the church be a clear voice of morality and its role in
society.
Pornography and wanton violence in the media can blind people to the
divine images, the very likeness of God, in the human being. We are made in
the image of God, and to portray that image in a perverse and corrupt way for
the enjoyment of others is not only immoral, but goes against our human nature
and purpose, to know, love, and serve God in this ...
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